All Screen articles in 5 December 2003 – Page 5
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Von Trier close to finding Grace with Howard
Newcomer Bryce Dallas Howard - the daughter of director Ron Howard - is close to taking on the role of Grace in Lars von Trier's Manderlay, the director's follow-up to this year's controversial Dogville."I can confirm that we are negotiating with her, and that we believe she would be a ...
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Ferch named EFA master of ceremonies
German actor Heino Ferch (Wintersleepers, Comedian Harmonists), has been named as master of ceremonies at this weekend's European Film Awards (Dec 6).Meanwhile, directors Jeanne Moreau, Istvan Szabo and Pedro Almodovar will act as patrons for the nominated films. Twenty-four hours later, on Dec 7, the French-German cultural channel Arte will ...
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BSkyB strikes MGM movie deal
UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB has struck a movie and entertainment programming deal with MGM, which will supply Sky Movies with a slate of classic titles, including all five Rocky films and 40 other features such as Twelve Angry Men to Moonstruck. The deal also allows Artsworld - a niche channel ...
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Blockbuster goes on the block
Blockbuster Inc, the world's number one video rentals chain, may be sold in a leveraged buyout or through a share swap as early as next week.On Monday this week (Dec 1, 2003) Sumner Redstone, chairman of Viacom, the media conglomerate that owns Paramount, CBS and Blockbuster, told a New York ...
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Cine International sells Belgian Children to the US
German sales house Cine International has licensed Belgian first film Children Of Love (Les Enfants De L'Amour) to specialist exhibitor-distributor Film Forum for a US release.The film by Geoffrey Enthoven is a documentary-style drama about a family torn apart by disputes, disappointments and separation. It was produced by Flemish producer ...
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Specialty division chiefs subpoenaed to appear in Indies V MPAA case
Studiospecialty division chiefs Harvey Weinstein of Miramax Films, Michael Barker andTom Bernard of Sony Pictures Classics, David Linde and James Schamus of FocusFeatures and Bingham Ray of United Artists may get their say after all in thebattle over the screener ban, since all have been subpoenaed to appear in USdistrict ...
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Marchand tipped to head up UK's Momentum
Xavier Marchand has emerged as the frontrunner to replace David Kosse as head of UK distributor Momentum Pictures.Marchand is still active at his production company Haystack Productions, but is tipped to take over from Kosse, who is taking up the post of president of international marketing and distribution at Universal ...
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Holst named new head at Thura Film
The founder and main producer of Zentropa's documentary arm Zentropa Real, Carsten Holst, will from Jan 1 shift over to become managing director and producer at Michael Obel's Copenhagen-based Thura Film. "I believe that he is a highly competent man, who has some interesting experiences behind him, a good mix ...
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German industry unites to fight piracy
With illegal copying and downloading of feature films becoming ever more prevalent (ScreenDaily.com, 27 November 2003), the German film and video industries have joined forces to launch a campaign entitled "Raubkopierer sind Verbrecher - eine Initiative zum Schutz des Originals" ("Pirates are criminals - an initiative to protect the original")."We ...
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Korea's CJ Entertainment names new CEO
A reshuffle at South Korean conglomerate Cheil Jedang will see Park Dong-ho become the new CEO of local major CJ Entertainment.Park, who has served as head of Korea's biggest cinema circuit CJ CGV since August 2000, will retain his old position while also assuming responsibility for CJ Entertainment's investment, distribution, ...
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Big Fish
Dir: Tim Burton. US. 2003. 125minsIn many ways the perfect vehicle for tall-storyteller Tim Burton, Big Fish is a gently whimsical tale of a man's reconciliation with his dying father and his acceptance of his lifelong penchant for fabulism. Filled with the quirky fables and magical fantasy with which Burton ...
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Danish Scratch heads for Berlin
The Danish feature debut from Swedish-born Anders Gustafsson, Scratch (Bagland), has been selected as the first of six for the Berlin Film Festival's new youth film sidebar 14plus, an extension of the Kinderfilmfest. Though the film won't be released locally until December 25, it has already picked up a number ...
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FFA backs seven features in latest funding round
New features by Helmut Dietl, Marco Kreuzpaintner and Didi Danquart are among seven projects which received Euros 2.9m from the German Federal Film Board (FFA) in its latest round of funding.The largest sum - Euros 700,000 - was awarded to Dietl's melodramatic comedy update of the story of Orpheus and ...
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Korean film wins main Mannheim-Heidelberg award
Korean filmmaker Eo Il-seon's first full-length feature, the quietly poetic melodrama Plastic Tree won the Main Award of Mannheim-Heidelberg at this year's International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg (20-29 November)..The International Jury gave its Special Prize to Sweden's Daniel Lind Lagerloef for his bizarrely comic and moving love story Miffo, while the ...
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Hubert Bals Fund distributes Euros 467,000 to 28 projects
Twenty-eight projects from non-Western filmmakers are to receive a total of Euros 467,000 in grants from the International Film Festival Rotterdam's (IFFR) Hubert Bals Fund (HBF), as was decided during the fund's autumn selection round. The HBF provides individual grants to support either script development, post-production or distribution in the ...
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Stephen Fry awards£10,000 Oscar Moore screen-writing prize
The £10,000 Oscar Moore Screen-writing prize for 2003 has been awarded to Ben Gooder and Philip Greenacre for: A Fine Line - the gripping true story of the rise and fall of Eric Hebborn and his career as an expert art forgerThe Oscar Moore Foundation was set up in 1996, ...
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CTFDI opens Bad Boys II top in Japan, SWAT top in Australia
Entering the final stretch of an international campaign that beganin July, the action sequel Bad Boys 2 opened top in its final market of Japan at the weekend onan estimated $3.5m.Executives at ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) expect the film to prosper inJapan going into the holiday season and in ...
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AFMA hires two PR agencies to up policy work in 2004
AFMA, the tradebody that runs the AFM and represents 170 independent producers anddistributors worldwide, has hired public relations firms The Lippin Group andPodestaMattoon.The moveestablishes a bi-coastal entertainment and policy communications network forAFMA, which is preparing to go head-to-head with embattled MIFED organizerswhen it launches an AFM market in November 2004.Entertainment ...
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Universal celebrates $15.4m gross for Love Actually
Universal's Love Actually grossed an estimated $15.4m through UIP from 2,300sites in 18 countries over the weekend to raise its international cumulativetotal to $48.7m.The romantic comedy stayedtop in its second week in the UK, adding $8.4m from 477 sites and dropping 11%including previews (25% excluding) for a magnificent $25.9m running ...
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NETHERLANDS
Life at sea proved attractive in the Netherlands last weekend as hit animated film Finding Nemo and seafaring adventure Master And Commander all but drowned local family title Kees De Jongen.Washing up in eighth place for UIP, Andre van Duren's film about the life of a Dutch boy in ...